I finally got around to translating microEmacs from C into D. It's still in "C style", though :-)

ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/med.zip

microEmacs is a simple text editor, easily customizable, portable, and is a great project to learn programming from. It's in the public domain.

For those wanting to have some fun with it, some projects could be:

1) add regular expression searching
2) use std.algorithms to implement a "sort" function on a range
3) for the really ambitious, add in dmdscript as a way for users to script microEmacs

Walter Bright wrote:
> I finally got around to translating microEmacs from C into D. It's still in "C style", though :-)
> 
> ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/med.zip
> 
> microEmacs is a simple text editor, easily customizable, portable, and is a great project to learn programming from. It's in the public domain.
> 
> For those wanting to have some fun with it, some projects could be:
> 
> 1) add regular expression searching
> 2) use std.algorithms to implement a "sort" function on a range
> 3) for the really ambitious, add in dmdscript as a way for users to script microEmacs

Should probably mention that it's D2.

Also it seems to be missing disp.d.  There's a display.d, but several files are importing "disp".  Not sure if they're supposed to be the same thing or not.

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Should probably mention that it's D2.

Yes.

> Also it seems to be missing disp.d.  There's a display.d, but several files are importing "disp".  Not sure if they're supposed to be the same thing or not.

Fixed that.

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:24:28 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Should probably mention that it's D2.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Also it seems to be missing disp.d.  There's a display.d, but several files are importing "disp".  Not sure if they're supposed to be the same thing or not.
> 
> Fixed that.

In what way was this fixed? Is the import supposed to be 'disp' or 'display'? There are a number of references to functions like "disp_..." that are not being found. eg. console.d line:65 has "disp_open();".

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
20/02/2008 12:11:11 PM

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Should probably mention that it's D2.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Also it seems to be missing disp.d.  There's a display.d, but several files are importing "disp".  Not sure if they're supposed to be the same thing or not.
> 
> Fixed that.

And did you update the zip on ftp too?  Seems unchanged.

--bb

Derek Parnell wrote:
>> Fixed that.
> 
> In what way was this fixed? Is the import supposed to be 'disp' or
> 'display'? There are a number of references to functions like "disp_..."
> that are not being found. eg. console.d line:65 has "disp_open();".

I had forgotten to add disp.d to the zip file, which I then did and uploaded.

Bill Baxter wrote:
> And did you update the zip on ftp too?  Seems unchanged.

Ah, I see the problem, I copied the wrong file. Please try again.

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:33:56 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> And did you update the zip on ftp too?  Seems unchanged.
> 
> Ah, I see the problem, I copied the wrong file. Please try again.

Still doesn't compile (dmd 2.010).

console.d:32 "static INPUT_RECORD lookaheadir;" - what is an INPUT_RECORD?

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:33:56 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> And did you update the zip on ftp too?  Seems unchanged.
>> Ah, I see the problem, I copied the wrong file. Please try again.
> 
> Still doesn't compile (dmd 2.010).
> 
> console.d:32 "static INPUT_RECORD lookaheadir;" - what is an INPUT_RECORD?
> 

Looks like maybe some bit of Windows API Walter hasn't checked into std.c.windows.windows yet:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683499(VS.85).aspx?s=21

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:33:56 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>> And did you update the zip on ftp too?  Seems unchanged.
>>> Ah, I see the problem, I copied the wrong file. Please try again.
>>
>> Still doesn't compile (dmd 2.010).
>>
>> console.d:32 "static INPUT_RECORD lookaheadir;" - what is an INPUT_RECORD?
>>
> 
> Looks like maybe some bit of Windows API Walter hasn't checked into std.c.windows.windows yet:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683499(VS.85).aspx?s=21

My bad, i hadn't unpacked dmd 2.011 yet.  Those structs were indeed added to std.c.windows.windows in 2.011 so Walter could compile microemacs.

--bb